holocaust
holocaust
THE HOLOCAUST

-The word holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning
"Sacrifice by fire". Hebrew term for Holocaust is Shoah
meaning "Castastrophe"
- The holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder
of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its
collaborators.
-The Nazi who came into power in Germany in January 1933,
believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews,
deemed "inferior", were an alien threat to the so- called
German racial community ( Yahil, Leni)